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Nature and animals are my passion in photography. In 2010 I bought a DSLR, some lenses and tought myself the basics of photography. After buying a true 1:1 macro-lens I find myself more and more enthusiastic about the wonderful world of macrophotography.
The natural world is my favourite subject, however, I never hesitate to try and make a nice picture of anything interesting that comes along.
Finally, I look for something more in my pictures, in means of something has to 'happen' in the photograph. The picture has to have a story of some kind and preferably a story that I find worth telling. It's something I always keep in mind when going out with my camera, it keeps me keen, alert and critical.

In her comment on my picture 'Let's Dance' our fellow 500px member Jane Sleeth posted that she had no idea what my home-made orangejuice flashtube was. This is not the first time I got that question so here we go:

First of all, the 'problem' or rather 'challange' with my macro's is, in my opinion, the available light. Typical I want a small aperture of f/11 and above, even better is f/16. Together with that small aperture I want a low ISO rating to get the most out of my pictures. With my macro lens, a 90mm, I need at least a shutter speed of 1/125 to avoid shaken images, eventhough I have set my 'SR' on in my K-x body.

So summed up that's:
- f/16
- iso100
- 1/125

Do the maths, I need a lot of light!

The typical insect macro-lens is, imho, at least 90mm and has a aperture of f/2.8. That means a long lens, and that means that if I use my built-in flash, the light of the flash does not reach the object that's in front of my lens. So it's pretty useless...